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The KPMG Foundation trustees are particularly interested in funding local projects which will have national impact, for example grants which use the local level as a laboratory but where monitoring and evaluation and networks allow a national profile. In some cases, the national strategy has not been determined at the commencement of the project, but we help the charities draw this together through the lifecycle of the project. The Trustees also like to fund projects which are of three years duration. Projects that we currently fund: Refugee Council - London Refugee Council - London Establishing a national strategy for teenage refugee children - £10,000 per annum for three years commencing in 2002 This project aims to establish a national educational strategy for teenage refugee children through mapping existing good practice, lobbying the DfEE to produce national guidance and by helping local authorities in the service development for the group. After a delay to the start of the project, it has finally commenced with the recruitment of the project manager. National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders - London Education and Training Fund - £25,000 per annum for three years commencing in 2001 A young person’s education and training fund for released prisoners and offenders serving non-custodial sentences. The fund will pay for course fees and books and equipment. Specific case studies have been provided which reinforce that the scheme is worthwhile and being used. Resettlement Project - £50,000 per annum for three years commencing in 2001 A pilot resettlement project working with young people in prison and after release. Monthly reports received show that the resettlement team are making good progress in securing some form of education, employment or training for the young people. The Buttle Trust - London Action Research Project - £36,000 per annum for three years commencing in 2001 Comprising 30 individual bursaries of £1,200, this project aims to help care leavers get into and successfully complete university courses through providing individual bursaries and studying what obstacles young care leavers face. Local Solutions - Liverpool Dyslexia Project - £46,447 per annum for three years commencing in 2002 The project aims to integrate a full training, screening and assessment dyslexia programme across Local Solutions product offerings. The objective is to achieve:
The Dyslexia Institute - Surrey The Dyslexia Institute Bursary Fund - £10,000 per annum for three years commencing in 2002 The project is providing assessment and tuition bursaries for dyslexia individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. The programme aims to support pupils where a clear need for intensive tuition is identified. The targeted multi-sensory teaching programme addresses individual’s needs in basic literacy and numeracy as well as addressing their confidence and self esteem. Fitzwilliam and Kinsley Community Driving School - Pontefract Driving tuition Project - £3,765 per annum for three years commencing in 2002 A community school run by two local police officers in Pontefract. It aims to select and fund socially disadvantaged young people to access driving skills with the aim to improve their employability and develop life and social skills. DePaul Trust - London Birmingham Last Chance Project - £30,000 per annum for three years commencing in 2002 The project aims to work with persistent young offenders aged 16-18 by providing an alternative to custody. Judges will, on the recommendation of the Young Offending Teams, send young people to the DePaul Hostel where they will be bound, in court, to undertake 5 hours of activity per day. The activities include training in life skills, numeracy, vocational guidance, health and hygiene, drug awareness, IT and addressing offending behaviour. Feltham Young Offenders One-to-One Mentoring - £19,788 per annum for three years commencing in 2002 The project aims to assist the rehabilitation of young offenders at Feltham by providing a mentoring scheme. The objective is to reduce re-offending rates and produce young people who are safer having addressed drug and alcohol issues and also who are able to contribute to society through education and employment. The North of England Refugee Service – Newcastle upon Tyne Refugee Youth Work Project - £40,000 per annum for three years commencing in 2002 The project aims to develop and promote the role of young refugees in developing the cultural and social welfare of refugees and their communities through:
Brathay Hall Trust – Ambleside, Cumbria
Police Inclusion Programme (PIP) - £6,000 for one year commencing in 2003 The objective of the Police Inclusion Project will be collaborative work primarily between the Brathay Hall Trust and West Yorkshire Police. The aim of the project is to tackle crime diversion/social inclusion. Its aim will be to intervene in the offending behaviour of eighteen young people aged 12-13 years old from across the Bradford District. The group of young people will be targeted at a stage of having received a police reprimand. PIP will provide a process for personal and social education, enabling the young people to develop a sense of self that is not defined by criminal activity. The project will be delivered in three six-month phases. Each phase will comprise a variety of sessions in Bradford and a residential at Brathay. Each phase will develop structured progressions of action and reflection on the following themes:
The project aims are:
Dyslexia Institute - Wales
The DIALS Learning Challenge – £6,539 in 2003, £20,191 in 2004 and £18,174 in 2005 The aim of this project is to improve the quality of provision in Wales for young adults struggling with dyslexia. The strategy is to achieve this through creating and delivering an education and training plan for people with dyslexia or severely low literacy/numeracy skills in South Wales through partnerships with local schools, colleges, voluntary sector organisations and relevant training providers. The project will be delivered through free awareness sessions on the impact and implications of having dyslexia to the partnership groups mentioned above. A follow up of the awareness sessions will be made with a full training day which will enable attendees to identify and assess those with literacy learning difficulties. The newly identified dyslexic learners will then be appropriately sign-posted for a full professional assessment and specific multi-sensory structured tuition funded by supporters of the project. Results from this project will be disseminated throughout Wales and also through the Dyslexia Institute networks. Devon Youth Association - Barnstaple, Devon
TREADS Motor Project North Devon - £15,000 per annum for three years commencing in 2003
The aim of this project is to provide vocational training to young people at risk in North Devon. The project will be developed within the TREADS (North Devon) project in Barnstaple, for young offenders, young care-leavers, young people excluded from school and other young people ages 13-25, in North Devon who are deemed to be at risk of offending, school exclusion or admission to Local Authority care. It will provide opportunities for 20 young people, jointly identified by social services, YOT and DYA per annum with access to:
Five one-week courses shall be available through this programme each year. Learning shall be disseminated through an independent evaluation undertaken by Community Council of Devon. Dissemination of the results will be via the Association Annual report which is circulated to statutory and charitable foundation funds, to partnership statutory and voluntary agencies in the South West, the National Youth Agency and local Community Safety Partnerships. Princes Trust - Wales
Leaving Care Project - £20,000 per annum for three years commencing in 2003-09-04
The project objective is to further
develop an existing Leaving Care Scheme
in Wales. The Leaving Care Mentoring
Scheme currently operates in Pembrokeshire,
Carmarthenshire, Cardiff, Newport,
Torfaen, Denbighshire and Flintshire.
Mentors have been recruited in each
area and PT are currently helping 44
young careleavers to make a positive
step in their lives.
In addition, the PT would look to provide additional top-up training to existing volunteer mentors and volunteer co-ordinators. This will ensure that their skills develop in such a way to meet the changing needs of the mentees. The training would include assertiveness, motivational skills and supervision skills. The PT also aims to target care leavers who have already been engaged with the initial scheme in order to recruit peer-to-peer mentors. These mentors will be able to share real life experiences, and act as a real life role model to those currently leaving the statutory care system. It is envisaged that the scheme will help 100 young people per annum. There are currently 3,500 young people in care in Wales. It is estimated that 25 percent of these young people will be homeless once they leave the care system.
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